Widening V street. Ante, p. 521. Public schools. Heating, etc., apparatus. Fire extinguishers, etc. Metropolitan police. Fire department. Contingent expenses. Health department. Prevention of contagious diseases. Vol. 26, p. 691. Vol. 29, p. 635. Police court. Additional ground for new building. Judgments. Jail. Lunacy writs. WIDENING V STREET: For additional amount required to provide the necessary funds for the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, for the widening of V street northwest, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, seventytwo dollars and fifty-seven cents. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: For additional amount required for repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, one thousand dollars. For additional amount required for repairing and renewing heating and ventilating apparatus, two thousand dollars. For additional amount required for fire extinguishers and fire escapes for school buildings, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twentynine dollars. For additional amount required for contingent expenses for the fiscal years that follow: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, ten dollars. METROPOLITAN POLICE: For amount required to pay the salary of Edward Murphy, private of the Metropolitan police force for the month of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, seventy-five dollars and sixty cents. FIRE DEPARTMENT: For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for contingent expenses for the fiscal years that follow: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five thousand dollars. HEALTH DEPARTMENT: For additional amount required for the necessary traveling expenses of sanitary and food inspectors while traveling outside of the District of Columbia for the purpose of inspecting dairy farms, milk, and other dairy products, three hundred dollars. For additional amount required for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act to prevent the spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia, approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety seven, for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eighteen dollars and fourteen cents. COURTS: For additional amount required for compensation of jury, police court, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, six dollars. POLICE COURT BUILDING: For additional amount required to pay costs incident to condemnation of additional ground in square numbered four hundred and eighty-nine, in the city of Washington, for site for a new police court building, ninety-nine dollars. JUDGMENTS: For payment of the judgments, including costs, against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Documents Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven and Three hundred and twenty-four and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety of this session, twelve thousand four hundred and ninety-seven dollars and twelve cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest, at not exceeding four per centum, on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment. SUPPORT OF PRISONERS, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: For expenses for maintenance of the jail of the District of Columbia, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the AttorneyGeneral, four thousand dollars. WRITS OF LUNACY: For additional amount required to defray the expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico de inquirendo and commitments thereunder, in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, for the fiscal years that follow: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, eight hundred and seventy dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars. BOARD OF CHILDREN'S GUARDIANS: For additional amount required for board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said Board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, three thousand five hundred dollars, with authority to pay not more than five hundred dollars of said amount to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control. For additional amount required for board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said Board by the courts of the District, for the services of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, eight hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-eight cents, with authority to pay said amount to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control. Board of Children's pital. Hos FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL AND ASYLUM: For additional amount required Freedmen's for fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, forty-four dollars and sixty-four cents. GARFIELD HOSPITAL: For additional amount required for isolating Garfield Hospital. ward, Garfield Hospital, one thousand dollars. Naval militia. MILITIA: For amount required to pay the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for transportation of officers, men, and baggage of the Naval penses. Battalion, militia, District of Columbia, from Washington, District of Columbia, to League Island, Pennsylvania, on September fifth, nineteen hundred and four, five hundred and forty-four dollars and fortythree cents. tan." For purchase of coal for the United States steamship Puritan, and Steamship "Purifor necessary expenses in the care of said ship, three thousand six hundred dollars. Coal, etc. Metropolitan Cab Company. To pay the Metropolitan Cab Company the amount found due by a board of survey convened by the commanding general of the militia Payment to. of the District of Columbia, for losses sustained by said company through death and injury to horses hired by it to said militia for use during the annual encampment at Leesburg, Virginia, between July twenty-third, nineteen hundred and three, and August first, nineteen hundred and three, five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty cents. Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. WAR DEPARTMENT. To enable the Secretary of War to pay the amounts due certain newspapers for publishing advertisements for proposals for construction work and military supplies and set forth on pages eighteen and nineteen of House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven of this session, one hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-two cents. To enable the Secretary of War to pay the amounts due certain newspapers for publishing advertisements for construction work, and 30 forth, and set forth on page nineteen of House Document Numbered Half from District revenues. War Department. Advertisements. George T. Holloway. Harry Parshall, Refund to state of. J. B. Houston. Eben Swift, jr. John J. Boniface. Charles Keller. James M. Marshall. John Stephen Sewell. Two hundred and eighty-seven of this session, twenty-one dollars and thirty-three cents. CREDIT IN ACCOUNTS OF MAJOR GEORGE T. HOLLOWAY: The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to open the accounts of Major George T. Holloway, additional paymaster, United States Volunteers, and to credit him with the sum of one hundred and twenty-three dollars and fifty-three cents, as recommended, under authority of the Secretary of War, by the Paymaster-General United States Army. REFUND TO THE ESTATE OF HARRY PARSHALL: To refund to Jessie M. Parshall, of Valentine, Nebraska, widow of Harry Parshall, formerly second lieutenant, Twenty-second United States Infantry, the sum belonging to the said Harry Parshall and erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of "Miscellaneous receipts" by Captain O. B. Meyer, Fourteenth United States Cavalry, as per certificate of deposit Numbered Three hundred and three of September twentieth, nineteen hundred and four, fifty dollars. REIMBURSEMENT TO MAJOR J. B. HOUSTON: To reimburse Major J. B. Houston, paymaster, United States Volunteers, the amount refunded by him to the Government on account of payment on September third, nineteen hundred, at Portland, Oregon, of two sets of forged final statements of discharged enlisted men, through no fault on his part, three hundred and thirty-three dollars. CREDIT IN THE ACCOUNTS OF LIEUTENANT EBEN SWIFT, JUNIOR: That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Lieutenant Eben Swift, junior, Eleventh United States Cavalry, the sum of four hundred and twentyfour dollars and twenty-nine cents standing against him on the books of the Treasury. CREDIT IN THE ACCOUNTS OF LIEUTENANT JOHN J. BONIF: CE: That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Lieutenant John J. Boniface, Fourth United States Cavalry, the sum of one hundred and fifty-four dollars and fifty-two cents standing against him on the books of the Treasury. CREDIT IN THE ACCOUNTS OF CAPTAIN CHARLES KELLER: That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Captain Charles Keller, Corps of Engineers, the sum of thirteen dollars and sixty-three cents now standing against him on the books of the Treasury. CREDIT IN THE ACCOUNTS OF COLONEL JAMES M. MARSHALL: The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to reopen the accounts of Colonel James M. Marshall, Assistant Quartermaster-General, United States Army, and to credit him with the sum of thirty-three dollars, expended by him in July, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, under instructions of the Assistant Secretary of War and the Quartermaster-General, in payment for preparing an abstract of title of certain land donated to the United States for the military post at Fort Harrison, Montana. CREDIT IN THE ACCOUNTS OF CAPTAIN JOHN STEPHEN SEWELL: The Credit in accounts. accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and hereby directed to allow and credit on the books of the Treasury the sum of two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents in settlement of the accounts of Captain John Stephen Sewell, Corps of Engineers. Texas. STATE OF TEXAS: The Secretary of War is hereby directed to inquire, ices of volunteers, etc. and report to Congress for its consideration, what sum or sums of money were actually expended by the State of Texas during the period of time between February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty, in payment of State volunteers or rangers called into service by authority of the governor of Texas, in defense of the frontier of that State against Mexican marauders and Indian depredations, for which reimbursement has not been made out of the Treasury of the United States. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. Military Establish ment. PAY OF THE ARMY: For pay of officers of the staff and line, five Pay of officers. hundred thousand dollars; For pay of enlisted men, nine hundred thousand dollars; In all, one million four hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for "Pay, and so forth, of the Army" for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, which is hereby reappropriated for said purposes. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, when authorized by law, one hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for "Pay, and so forth, of the Army" for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, which is hereby reappropriated for said purposes. QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT. Enlisted men. Vol. 32, p. 508. Mileage. Quartermaster's De partment. REGULAR SUPPLIES: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster's Regular supplies. Department, including all objects mentioned under this head in the army appropriation Act for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, seven hundred thousand dollars, together with the further sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for "Regular Supplies" for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, which is hereby reappropriated for said purpose. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ninety thousand dollars. MILITARY POST, FORT SNELLING, MINNESOTA: To complete the purchase of land lying south of the Fort Snelling Military Reservation for use as a target range, and for the purchase of the improvements thereon, fifteen thousand dollars. Reappropriation. Vol. 32, p. 514. Fort Snelling, Minn. Knoxville, Tenn. For repair of the Tennessee soldiers' monument, the property of the United States, in the national cemetery at Knoxville, Tennessee, five ment. thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. CLAIMS FOR PROPERTY TAKEN FROM CONFEDERATE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS AFTER SURRENDER: For payment of claims filed with the Quartermaster-General under Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, and amendments thereto, for horses, saddles, and bridles taken from Confederate soldiers in violation of terms of surrender, one hundred thousand dollars. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. SURVEY FOR WAGON ROAD FROM VALDEZ TO FORT EGBERT, ALASKA: For a survey and estimate of cost of a wagon road from Valdez to Fort Egbert, on the Yukon River, to be made under the direction of the Secretary of War, five thousand seven hundred dollars and sixtythree cents. Property of Confederate soldiers. Vol. 32, p. 43. Engineer Depart ment. Alaska. SURVEY FOR MILITARY TRAIL BETWEEN YUKON RIVER AND COLD- Military trail. FOOT, ALASKA: For surveying and locating a military trail under the direction of the Secretary of War, by the shortest and most practicable route, between the Yukon River and Coldfoot, on the Koyukuk River, to be immediately available, one thousand four hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifteen cents. Military Academy, Current expenses. Fuel, etc. Jubilee Centennial History. Ante, p. 448 National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. MILITARY ACADEMY. CURRENT AND ORDINARY EXPENSES: For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, two hundred and thirty-seven dollars. Fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves, grates, heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, fire bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steam-heating apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, and furnaces, mica, five thousand dollars. For fuel for cadets' mess hall, shops, and laundry, ten thousand dollars. For postage and telegrams, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ten dollars and thirty-eight cents. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES: For the printing by the Public Printer of six thousand copies of the Jubilee Centennial History of the United States Military Academy, one thousand of which shall be for the use of the Senate and two thousand for the use of the House of Representatives, and the balance to be distributed by the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy under the direction of the Secretary of War, or so much thereof as may be necessary, three thousand two hundred and thirty dollars. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS: Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For subsistence, including the same Leavenworth, Kans. objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, six thousand dollars. Marion, Ind. Hampton, Va. Danville, Ill. Dayton, Ohio. State and Territorial Homes. Vol 25, p. 450. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, fifteen thousand dollars. Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For househould, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, nine thousand dollars. Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For transportation, namely: For transportation of the members of the Home for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ninety-seven dollars and twenty cents. Danville Branch, at Danville, Illinois: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five thousand dollars.. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand six hundred dollars. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five thousand dollars. Dayton Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: To pay the judgment of the court of common pleas of Montgomery County, Ohio, rendered November twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, against the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, in favor of Neil Overholzer, together with the costs, six hundred and three dollars and eighty-nine cents. STATE OR TERRITORIAL HOMES FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS: For continuing aid to State or Territorial Homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for |